A boy sees his father taken at gunpoint from his home, never to be seen again. The mystery gnaws but twenty years later he is an FBI agent, married with a young son, the terrible past faded. Until one day...it all comes back. Chilling revelations come from an unexpected source. The circumstances are extraordinary, compelling him to work alone against the deadly, secret men who killed his father.

This fast moving mystery poses an unusual plot involving a well developed cast, most of whom are scrambling to hit the jack pot by tapping the fortunes of the very rich using a "perfectly legal" scheme. Things go terribly wrong and become increasingly complicated as it falls in the lap of Detective Ryan Hamlin to sort out every clue and discover the murderer of the latest wealthy mark.

The Little Handbook of Narrative Frameworks is what I intended it to be: inspiration and framing for writing popular fiction based on proven plots and devices that create steps that are not just well formed but easily altered with new twists and turns. I have included worksheets following each framework to aid in plotting or examining.